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Saturday, March 20, 2004

EU Panics, Arrests Reporter Looking into Corruption

From the folks who think they could teach America a thing or two about nuance, we get this:
Reporter following trail of corruption in EU arrested
"The police said I was lucky I wasn't in Burma or central Africa, where journalists get the real treatment," he added.
They were right, you poor sap. At least in either of those places, you would have known your ass was on the line, and expected your own government to have at least paid some lip service to protecting you if something like this had occurred.
Mr Tillack said the raid was triggered by a complaint from the EU's anti-fraud office, OLAF. He was accused of paying money to obtain a leaked OLAF dossier two years ago, which he denies. ... As the author of a recent book on EU corruption, he has the greatest archive of investigative files of any journalist working in Brussels.
And they are pouring through those files, looking for the people who are disgusted with what a thoroughly corrupt thing the EU has become and turned to you to get the word out. Whichever of your sources they haven't rounded up before this became public better get their asses on a train or a plane, pronto.

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